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Blonde Mexican dissident seeks asylum in Chinese restaurant

by JUAN POCHO DE LEON May 9, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from GUADALAJARA) Blonde Mexican dissident Pablo Rubio holed up in a Chinese restaurant here after eluding taunting neighbors who say he can’t be Mexican since he is fair-haired and light-skinned. Rubio was spirited away from his home in a car trunk at noon yesterday by friends who convinced suspicious local gang members the getaway [...]

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Kids, lowrider bikes, culture and history in Tucson 1996: ‘Low y Cool’

by M.A.S. BURRITO April 14, 2012 Cultura
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When a French filmmaker shoots Chicano Tucson, the result is fascinating and maybe a little bit foreign — in a good way. Low y Cool documents the lives of the Camaradas Lowrider Bike Club in South Tucson, AZ in 1996. The 52-minute video was directed by Tucson resident and transplanted Frenchie Marianne Dissard with funding [...]

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Al Madrigal reveals inside story of ethnic studies ban in Tucson AZ

by Comic Saenz April 3, 2012 El Now
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Tucson public school students are no longer taught Mexican-American history, and POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal (who also moonlights as Senior Latino Correspondent for The Daily Show) went to the Hate State to find out why.

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GOP seeks Hispanic vote, taps Seagal for ‘You’re Busted, Beaner!’

by S.J. Rivera April 2, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from HOLLYWOOD) Republicans scared to death worried about the GOP’s ridiculously awful poor standing with Hispanic non-Mexican-American voters have launched an election-year scramble to put a better spin on their party’s immigration problem. Their solution? A TV reality show starring Hollywood flunkie and all-around jackass, Steven Seagal. Seagal leads the list of C-level [...]

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ICE unveils first-ever resort-style hotel for immigrant detainees

by S.J. Rivera March 16, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEJAS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is opening what they call the first-ever “resort-style hotel” for immigrant detainees. Critics are calling the new Karnes County (TX) Civil Detention Center a “prison for profit” but ICE is marketing it as a migrant “destination” with “vast amenities” that [...]

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Is Tucson book ban based on vendetta against Latina spelling champ?

by Victor Payan March 14, 2012 El Now
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A TV interview with Arizona Mexican-American Studies opponent John Huppenthal suggests that his Hate State movement is a twisted vendetta stemming from his Tucson childhood — when a Latina student named Stella Peralta trounced him week after week in spelling bees. In the January interview, AZ school chief Huppenthal also said Latino students are capable [...]

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What Mexicans really look like, not what *they* think (video)

by Andalé Mono March 8, 2012 Cultura
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Variations on this particular meme have been going around the Internets for a while in online poster format (and for every ethnic, geographic, political and affinity group you can imagine.) Here’s a cool Mexican version re-imagined as a video. However: A Yankees jersey? Everyone knows all cholas are fans of Los Doyers! From the good [...]

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Ñewsweek: Hectors and actors and commentators oh my

by Comic Saenz March 4, 2012 El Now
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POCHO’s ñews team started the week in glossy Hollyweird and ended up scraping the crap off their shoes near Rush Limbaugh’s headquarters in La Floridita, but the big story of the week was the release of Mexican Mitt Romney’s music video/camapaign commercial. Will the GOP wannabe  become the nation’s first Latino president? And why does [...]

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Scientists ID Chicana who hasn’t seen ‘Blood In Blood Out’

by Sara Inés Calderón February 27, 2012 Cultura
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(PNS reporting from ALTA CALIFORNIA)  Ethnic anthropologists recently discovered the last living Chicana who has never seen the coming-of-age movie Blood In Blood Out. The woman, not named in the report, was spotted and identified last summer in the Los Angeles suburb of Cudahy, according to a study published in the prestigious journal Science. The subject, [...]

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Ñewsweek: AZ gay sheriff, ‘Sh¡t Latinos Don’t Say,’ Satan speaks

by Andalé Mono February 26, 2012 El Now
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The Hate State of Arizona was the scene of three big stories this week: GOP wannabe Mitt Rammane’s campaign pulled another boner as the campaign co-chair, immigrant-hating sheriff Paul Babeu, tried to explain his way out of allegations he threatened his Mexican immigrant boyfriend with deportation. Babeu resigned from the campaign but not before Pocho [...]

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